This the readme file to FL96MATCH.xls.  The file contains the presidential and congressional results from the 1996 general election matched with voter registration data broken data by race and party.  I recommend excluding any split CDs from analyses of the data.


Location Identifiers:
ST_FIPS	State FIPS Code
COUNTY	County Name
CTYFIPS	County FIPS Code
PRECINCT	Precinct Code

Presidential Election Results:
CLINTON	Votes for Clinton (D)
DOLE		Votes for Dole (R)
PEROT	Votes for Perot (Reform)
BROWNE	Votes for Browne (Libertarian)

Congressional Election Results:
CD		Congressional District Number
CDSPLIT	Precinct Split between 2 Congressional Districts (coded 1 for yes, 0 for no)
CDDEM	Votes for Democrat
CDREP	Votes for Republican
CDIND	Votes for Independent

Voter Registration Statistics:
WHTREP	White Republicans
BLKREP	Black Republicans
HSPREP	Hispanic Republicans
OTHREP	Other Race Republicans
TOTREP	Total Republicans (equals sum of four previous variables)
WHTDEM	White Democrats
BLKDEM	Black Democrats
HSPDEM	Hispanic Democrats
OTHDEM	Other Race Democrats
TOTDEM	Total Democrats
WHTIND	White Independents
BLKIND	Black Independents
HSPIND	Hispanic Independents
OTHIND	Other Race Independents
TOTIND	Total Independents
WHTREG	Total White Registered
BLKREG	Total Black Registered
HSPREG	Total Hispanic Registered
OTHREG	Total Other Race Registered
TOTREG	Total Registered